Global Aid Projects began on the ground, in the places most people never see. Our founder, Bryson, spent years working with vulnerable communities around the world. Everywhere he went, he saw the same thing: local nonprofits understood their communities better than anyone, yet their work was constantly overshadowed and underfunded next to the big international players. And when those major providers pulled back after sudden funding cuts from sources like USAID, it was the local groups left scrambling to fill the GAPs.

So Bryson teamed up with Bella, a Field and Operations Coordinator he’d met at a refugee camp in France, and built a different kind of organization. Not one more outsider arriving with its own plan, but one designed to strengthen local efforts already underway, so communities depend less on the shifting winds of global aid and more on themselves.

One place was hit particularly hard by recent global aid cuts: La Guajira, Colombia. Here sits La Pista, the largest migrant settlement in Latin America, built on an old airport runway where more than a thousand families, Venezuelan migrants, returning Colombians, and indigenous Wayuu, live in homes of cardboard and tarp. Water has to be carried in by the bucket. Most families eat one meal a day. And La Pista is only one of nearly 54 settlements scattered around La Guajira, many with even less means for survival. 

In 2026, GAPs went to see it firsthand. Over one week on the ground, the team sat with community leaders, local foundations, and families, and met organizations run by the very people they serve: communities that are not just the problem to be solved but the ones already solving it.

Those conversations became real partnerships. Currently, GAPs is undergoing their extensive vetting process and signing contracts with local La Guajira partner organizations. GAPs plans to continue to work alongside local organizations across La Guajira to help fund their most urgent life-saving needs, build targeted and economically sustainable projects on the needs they named themselves, and raise awareness of the dire humanitarian situation. We go where others have left, and we back the programs that create lasting change. GAPs incorporated in August 2025 and holds 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.